Masters of the Chess Board (Hardinge Simpole chess classics)

Réti produces a penetrating thumbnail sketch of each of the great masters who contributed decisively to the progress of chess thinking from the days of Morphy and Anderssen up to the time of Capablanca, Alekhine, Nimzowitsch and the hypermoderns, amongst whom Réti numbered himself.

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Championship Chess (Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics)

Botvinnik came saw and conquered at this 1941 meet of the top Grandmasters in the USSR.In the tournament Botvinnik dominated Keres, Smyslov, Boleslavsky, Bondarevsky and Lilienthal. Experts regard this as perhaps the best tournament book ever written.

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Dynamic Chess (Hardinge Simpole chess classics)

This scholarly essay in intellectual progress over the chess board shows how the pessimists who thought chess played out - destined to become victim to the death of a thousand draws - were refuted by the dynamic risky games of Alexander Alekhine, whose legacy lived on in the games of Soviet and Russian champions such as Mikhail Tal. With computers taking an ever increasing role in modern chess and challenging the modern champions Kasparov and Kramnik, the author's thoughts on the inexhaustible creative potential of chess assume even greater significance.

Dynamic Chess (Hardinge Simpole chess classics)

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Fifty Great Games of Modern Chess (Hardinge Simpole chess classics)

A companion volume to Larry Evans's selection from the 1960's, this book takes the story of the best games of the top players from the beginnning of the 20th century up to 1940. This volume is arranged chronologically and reaches the period of the Second World War. The games by such immortals as Capablanca, Alekhine, Lasker, Botvinnik, Nimzowitsch and Rubinstein are annotated with the customary lucidity, authority and elegance synonymous with Golombek.

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Delights of Chess (Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics)

Delights of Chess is Assiac's enduring monument. Wit, erudition, grandmaster gossip and profiles of the greats are the staple fare, rather then gruelling analysis or reams of variations. This is the elegant fireside of chess to be savoured with blazing logs and a glass of fine cognac.

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First Piatigorsky Cup (Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics)

Having just defeated Botvinnik for the World Crown the new champion Tigran Petrosian travelled to Hollywood to compete in this glamorous top level competition organised and financed by millionaire cellist and chess devotee Gregor Piatigorsky. This event resulted in some superb chess by the world's best, while the notes by the players themselves, including Petrosian and Keres, grant unique insights into the workings of the best chess minds. This is one of the great tournament books of all time.

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